Saturday 3:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

Lights, camera, action! Scraping a great dataset to predict Oscar winners

Deborah Hanus

Description

Using Jupyter notebooks and scikit-learn, you’ll predict whether a movie is likely to [win an Oscar](http://oscarpredictor.github.io/) or be a box office hit. Together, we’ll step through the creation of an effective dataset: asking a question your data can answer, writing a web scraper, and answering those questions using nothing but Python libraries and data from the Internet.